KARACHI, Dec 11: Four men, including a Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist, were shot dead in different incidents at various city localities on Thursday, the police said.

Police said two men on a motorcycle reached a game shop being run by Kamran, said to be an MQM activist of unit 159, at the junction of Block-8 and 9, in Liaquatabad, and after confirming his name, shot him in the head and sped away.

Town Police Officer Tahir Naveed said Kamran’s father was also shot dead some eight to ten years back in a similar incident.

The police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.

A man was shot dead in Orangi Town by unknown persons. Police said they found a man with bullet wounds and torture marks on his body at a garbage dump near Aslam eating house in Orangi Town. The man was shifted to the Civil Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

He was identified as Ishaque Baloch, 25, a close associate of notorious criminal, Rehman alias Dacoit. Police claimed that Ishaque was wanted in several criminal cases and absconding for the past one decade.

The police believed that Ishaque was kidnapped, subjected to severe torture and pumped three bullets afterwards.

A local businessman was shot dead on Wednesday, over monetary dispute with his client in Metroville-III, Mobina Town police said.

Safdar Raza, 30, who supplied flour to bread-making factories, reached a bakery in Metroville-III, to recover more than Rs300,000, which had been pending for the past many months. After an exchange of hot words with his debtors, the police said, the dispute took an ugly turn when Mr Raza was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced through his chest, which proved fatal for him.

A sacked employee, Najaf Ali, 40, of the defunct Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was shot dead near his house in Pak Colony.